After eating some beef kabobs, we had this awesome beef drippings just waiting for something good to happen. So I decided to make that something good happen with some yorkshire pudding (recipe found here). It didn’t really work out. I made it before for my parents from a recipe out of Joy of Cooking and it was incredible. The light, fluffy, savory and rich bread was a nice desert-side the roast. This time was a disaster. 

The beef kabobs had left me with some drippings. Wahoo, drippings!

The thrifty American that I am, I decided to use them rather than toss them. And why not, their delicious … Anyhow so I whipped up some batter for Yorkshire pudding. 

First I started some batter since it had to sit for an hour.

I scrambled some eggs. 

Tossed them into the milk/flour mixture. Stirred in some melted butter. 

Now I could make nice little, fluffy yorkshire puddings with my muffin pan, or I could be lazy with less dishes and do it in the casserole dish.  …. Hmmm, I’ll be lazy. After 45 minutes of letting the batter sit, I tossed the drippings back into the hot oven to get them ready for the batter. After 10 minutes I opened the oven to remove the hot drippings and smoke flew out of the oven. Beneath the smoke I found this abomination of cooking in place of my beautiful drippings. 

Boo charcoal!

Wow. This didn’t happen before.  Thinking back … oh crap. This time I used the corn syrup “thai” sauce from Zea. Grrr the corn syrup must have burned and left me this mess. (I had to scrub the dish with a fork and scotchbrite for a week before I could get the burned mess off.)

Realizing that I had some batter for a possible delicious fluffy vegetarian twist of the yorkshire pudding, I tossed in some veggie oil into my other casserole dish and threw it into the oven. After 10 minutes, I poured the batter and baked it for 20 minutes. 

Instead of getting the fluffy, wonderful bread that clouds in heaven must be made of, I got this. 

A mediocre, greasy, fluffless, not-at-all-savory, wannabe yorkshire pudding. 

This won’t be last time I attempt the fluffy yorkshire pudding. One of these days beef drippings will be mine again … in a delicious bread form.